Originally Posted by
ro9ue
Uploading private videos to a company YouTube channel is a good, quick way to share across a large team who all have access. With something like VFX, you want to upload to the platform you're presenting it on to make sure there isn't a drop in quality. It's not like saving out an image. Video codecs and all that jazz make it a little more complicated.
Smaller teams can just call over their art director to their computer and preview right out of After Effects or whatever you're using, but when you're working within a large company where some of your higher-ups might not be in the same building... a private video channel is pretty handy.
Why not just use Dropbox? Well a few reasons. You would have to export the video out in a specific format. If you're showing the art team on Macs, the marketing team on PCs and maybe some higher ups out of office on their mobile device... yeah YouTube makes that all much, much easier.